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Is There a Scientific Basis for an Afterlife?
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RE: Is There a Scientific Basis for an Afterlife?
(November 29, 2009 at 2:33 pm)fr0d0 Wrote: Rabbit: I have no desire to chase your multiple dodging gymnastics. If you have nothing to say please try not to prolong the agony Wink
Dodging seems your middle name fr0d0, for it is my question that you at all cost try to avoid.
And if I wasn't saying anything there would be no reason to react, is it?
(November 29, 2009 at 2:33 pm)fr0d0 Wrote: "If you are using rationality to asses christianity then how do you reconcile biblical account with the fossil record, an all-good all-powerfull god with kid cancer, the fact that Nazareth did not exist in Jesus' time, the evidence that moral naturally arises in primate groups with the account of divinely provided absolute moral, the fact that our universe is 13.7 billion year old and that it took several billion years to form earth with the biblical account in which it took seven days."

....This is you using strange literalist interpretation of biblical text. NOTE: I never said "personal interpretation". Or were you arguing with yourself there??
Reading is an art form it seems. What my question confronts the reader with is not a literalist interpretation of biblical text but the contrast between 5 separate cases of widely known raw biblical accounts with scientific knowledge. If you happen to be a literalist you may give a literalist answer to the question how to reconcile the former with the latter, emphasizing the historic accuracy of the bible. If you happen to be a non-literalist you might give an answer that interprets the biblical account in a more loosely manner, for instance as non historically accurate. The question leaves ample room for either interpretation. And that room is precisely the reason to ask you the question dear fr0d0, not because I am so insanely interested in you as a person, but because you are here to have discussion and present me with opinions that dffer from mine.

Now, how about answering the question?

(November 29, 2009 at 2:33 pm)fr0d0 Wrote: Here's an old chestnut for you: All Christians agree on the Nicene Crede. Denominations serve differing expressions of faith. All have access to the truth that is universally agreed between them.
It's good to hear that even at the other side of the universe everybody agrees on the Nicene Crede. But not all christian denominations adhere to the Nicene Crede (example: the church of Jesus Christ of latter-day saints).

(November 29, 2009 at 2:33 pm)fr0d0 Wrote: Can you give me just one example where the truth 'varies' then please?
A rather clear example is the principle of Trinity which is held as central to most denominations but not in Pentacostal belief and Modalism.
"I'm like a rabbit suddenly trapped, in the blinding headlights of vacuous crap" - Tim Minchin in "Storm"
Christianity is perfect bullshit, christians are not - Purple Rabbit, honouring CS Lewis
Faith is illogical - fr0d0
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Is There a Scientific Basis for an Afterlife? - by BoxxyBabee - November 29, 2009 at 6:18 am
RE: Is There a Scientific Basis for an Afterlife? - by fr0d0 - November 29, 2009 at 7:31 am
RE: Is There a Scientific Basis for an Afterlife? - by fr0d0 - November 29, 2009 at 7:44 am
RE: Is There a Scientific Basis for an Afterlife? - by fr0d0 - November 29, 2009 at 8:04 am
RE: Is There a Scientific Basis for an Afterlife? - by fr0d0 - November 29, 2009 at 8:38 am
RE: Is There a Scientific Basis for an Afterlife? - by fr0d0 - November 29, 2009 at 8:26 am
RE: Is There a Scientific Basis for an Afterlife? - by fr0d0 - November 29, 2009 at 8:58 am
RE: Is There a Scientific Basis for an Afterlife? - by fr0d0 - November 29, 2009 at 9:15 am
RE: Is There a Scientific Basis for an Afterlife? - by fr0d0 - November 29, 2009 at 9:42 am
RE: Is There a Scientific Basis for an Afterlife? - by fr0d0 - November 29, 2009 at 10:22 am
RE: Is There a Scientific Basis for an Afterlife? - by theVOID - November 29, 2009 at 10:26 am
RE: Is There a Scientific Basis for an Afterlife? - by theVOID - November 29, 2009 at 10:14 am
RE: Is There a Scientific Basis for an Afterlife? - by fr0d0 - November 29, 2009 at 10:35 am
RE: Is There a Scientific Basis for an Afterlife? - by theVOID - November 29, 2009 at 10:41 am
RE: Is There a Scientific Basis for an Afterlife? - by fr0d0 - November 29, 2009 at 10:44 am
RE: Is There a Scientific Basis for an Afterlife? - by theVOID - November 29, 2009 at 10:47 am
RE: Is There a Scientific Basis for an Afterlife? - by fr0d0 - November 29, 2009 at 10:55 am
RE: Is There a Scientific Basis for an Afterlife? - by theVOID - November 29, 2009 at 10:58 am
RE: Is There a Scientific Basis for an Afterlife? - by fr0d0 - November 29, 2009 at 12:26 pm
RE: Is There a Scientific Basis for an Afterlife? - by theVOID - November 29, 2009 at 12:28 pm
RE: Is There a Scientific Basis for an Afterlife? - by fr0d0 - November 29, 2009 at 1:03 pm
RE: Is There a Scientific Basis for an Afterlife? - by fr0d0 - November 29, 2009 at 2:33 pm
RE: Is There a Scientific Basis for an Afterlife? - by Purple Rabbit - November 29, 2009 at 3:53 pm
RE: Is There a Scientific Basis for an Afterlife? - by fr0d0 - November 29, 2009 at 3:02 pm
RE: Is There a Scientific Basis for an Afterlife? - by fr0d0 - November 29, 2009 at 5:16 pm
RE: Is There a Scientific Basis for an Afterlife? - by fr0d0 - November 30, 2009 at 4:57 pm
RE: Is There a Scientific Basis for an Afterlife? - by fr0d0 - November 29, 2009 at 5:33 pm
RE: Is There a Scientific Basis for an Afterlife? - by Rhage - November 29, 2009 at 5:29 pm
RE: Is There a Scientific Basis for an Afterlife? - by fr0d0 - November 30, 2009 at 6:10 pm
RE: Is There a Scientific Basis for an Afterlife? - by fr0d0 - December 2, 2009 at 5:37 pm
RE: Is There a Scientific Basis for an Afterlife? - by fr0d0 - December 3, 2009 at 3:58 am

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